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APES, MONKEYS, AND LEMURS 



On the river Tigre Mr. Bartlett describes these monkeys as living in small 

 parties and traveling rapidly through the forests in the search of their favorite food, 

 which is a berry resembling a gooseberry in size, but with a hard stone inside. Mr. 

 Bartlett states that he had to ascend to the very summits of the ranges bordering 

 the Tigre valley before his search was rewarded. "Here," he writes, "we came 

 across a number of them about eight or nine. I shot the male that is now in the 



THE VARIEGATED SPIDER-MONKEY. 

 (One-sixth natural size.) 



British Museum, and my Indians brought down another with a poisoned dart. 

 Having obtained two of them I was satisfied that I had found a new species. 

 While, however, I was busily preparing the first specimen, my Indians had quietly 

 placed the other on the fire, and, to my great horror and disgust, they had singed 

 the hair off, and thus spoilt the specimen. Of course I was obliged to keep the 



